text: K. C. Nicolaou has received numerous awards and honors including:
  * 2021 Robert Koch Gold Medal (Germany)
  * 2016 Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Israel)
  * 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (Franklin Institute USA)
  * 2005 Arthur C. Cope Award (USA)
  * 2003 Nobel Laureate Signature Award in Graduate Education (with Phil S. Baran)
  * 2002 Tetrahedron Prize
  * 2001 Ernst Schering Prize (Germany)
  * 2000 Paul Karrer Gold Medal (Switzerland)
  * 1998 Esselen Award (USA)
  * 1996 Linus Pauling Award (USA)
  * 1996 William H. Nichols Medal (USA)
  * Aspirin Prize (Spain)
  * Max Tishler Prize Lecture (Harvard)
  * Yamada Prize (Japan)
  * Janssen Prize (Belgium)
  * Nagoya Medal (Japan)
  * Centenary Medal (Royal Society UK)
  * Inhoffen Medal (Germany)
  * ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (USA)
  * ACS Guenther Award in Natural Products Chemistry (USA)
  * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  * Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  *Member of the American Philosophical Society
  * Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2013)
  * Several honorary degrees